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Doina Pasca Harsanyi received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001. Her BA is from the University of Timisoara, Romania, in French Language and Literature. She joined the faculty at CMU in 2002.

Research and Teaching Interests

Professor Harsanyi’s research interests include ​topics in French revolutionary and Napoleonic history, French-American relations, the movement of ideas across the Atlantic during the Enlightenment and the modern era, and the history of the nobility throughout the revolutionary era. Her current research project explores different aspects of Italy under Napoleonic occupation.

Work in progress: Working For and Against Napleon: The Case of Parma, 1796–1815

“How to Make a Revolution Without Firing a Shot,” French History 2/22 (June 2008): 197–216.

“Literature to the Rescue: The Portrayal of the Nobility in Balzac’s Novels,” Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe (2005): 119–132.

“The Memoirs of Alexandre de Lameth and the Reconciliation between Nobility and Revolution,” In The French Nobility and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches, ed. Jay Smith (Penn State University Press, 2006).